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Geo Computers strikes me as a company that sells computers around components that no one else wants or can't sell, which is why I found it odd that the 1E came with a N4020 and all the other laptops we got came with a N4120. I can't be far wrong given that the 2E is being sold with a much older N3450.

Nexus One.

Out of curiosity, did anyone get laptops with AMD CPUs/APUs? We ended up with 6 HP 255 G7s which were meant for specific Students but because a couple of those had alternative arrangements means that we have 2 of them still. The CPU (an A4-9125) has worse performance than the N4020 Celerons in the GeoBooks and they are not supported in Windows 11 so effectively become e-waste when Win10 goes EOL (though yes I know they could have ChromeOS Flex or Linux on them but still.) These definitely seemed like a custom order since the APUs were almost 4 years old at the point we got these laptops and the Intel alternative which was the HP 250 G7 had CPUs (Celeron N4120) which came out in late 2019 so were somewhat better in that regard, especially since all of those are upgradable to Win11.

Sounds like they've improved this process, since the last time I added tills (which was about 3-4 years ago) meant editing both a local and server-side Access database with particular information before the till would connect.

Careful with that, past experience tends to dictate that mSATA or M.2 slots are only fitted IF the Laptop originally came with a drive as well to populate the slot, otherwise it's deemed as something not fitted to cut costs.

I didn't see them on the list so I think we're safe.

Also note that Microsoft are also phasing out support for Exchange ActiveSync on Outlook.com which is often used by older clients, so those may need a update if available or won't be able to connect anymore.

I think you only need the Digital expansion modules. Looking at ours, we have 70 odd Analogue extensions, 4 Digital ones and 8 IP ones & we only seem to be licensed for the IP extensions.

That'll be the KB-0316. I still have a repaired one that I use with a secondary computer at home. I like the old Microsoft Wired Keyboard 600 ones as they're nice to type on and are reliable but I hear that the newer ones are very hit and miss which is a bit of a shame.

I'll start the ball rolling then. Crucial MX500 2 TB CT2000MX500SSD1-Up to 560 MB/s (3D NAND, SATA, 2.5 Inch, Internal SSD) @ £131.99 from £190.79 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Crucial-MX500-CT2000MX500SSD1-NAND-Internal/dp/B003J5JB12?ref_=Oct_DLandingS_D_659c7534_74&smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE When I look elsewhere (Scan and Ebuyer for example) it's as low as £185 but I can't find it cheaper than that.

I did, it just so happened that 3 of us all decided to post at the same time.

Importing on the other hand is a tiny bit trickier as the option isn't there to import. This requires opening chrome:flags, search for "password import" and change the option for Password Import to Enabled. The option now appears under the aforementioned three dots menu. EDIT: Ninja'd (Apparently)

I can't speak for their G4 cameras but all the G3 ones I've used, while if they aren't ONVIF compatible, they do output a RTSP feed so can be used with software that supports that protocol at least.

XVision has been fairly good and we use their kit in our ICT Rooms. Some of their older cameras used to be reliant on IE but the newer stuff works fine even in Linux or on Mac. They're UK based (known as Y3K.) UniFi Protect is fine as long as you're prepared to buy the Dream Machine as the recorder but I did prefer it before they EOL'd UniFi Video as it meant you could set up a cheaper DIY setup. Finding it difficult getting hold of some of their cameras though.

Try GE Security's WaveReader software. We used it back in my last job with some no-name DVRs (and some that were branded "Vista") and that seemed to be fairly simple to setup.

I've used both before, Papercut is a lot more intuitive when it comes to its configuration. Uniflow on the other hand, it was real easy to get lost when trying to do what seemed like the simplest things. The one thing that sticks out in my mind as bonkers was when one of the Canon engineers we spoke to at the time told us to only use IE to configure it as any other browser could potentially cause corruption within its database.

After a spate of PSUs in one model of PC* going bang, I started doing some investigation and found in many cases more than 250V being served from sockets (I think the record was 257V from one socket I tested!) When we contacted Western Power Distribution about it, they were happy to argue that 250V was perfectly acceptable (while also mentioning that rural areas always get the higher volts for some reason) but then after repeated phone calls (where we kept telling them that the voltages were a lot higher than normal and that it was destroying computer equipment) they eventually backed down and sent someone out to adjust the delivered voltage from the substation. Since then, we stopped getting fireworks in computer rooms and the lower voltage AFAIK didn't have any detrimental effect on anything else. *These were HP d530 desktops. It didn't help in the first place that the glue holding various components in place in the PSU could become conductive if moisture from the air is also introduced to the glue - usually those in damp rooms, without then introducing a higher voltage that the PSUs seemingly couldn't cope with.

I also took apart one of our 3190's since I wondered if they were eMMC but was surprised to find that our ones had m.2 slots which were actually populated, and assumed they'd all be like that. Seems not. I'd mentioned before somewhere that our GeoBooks also had m.2 slots when I took one apart, except these weren't populated and they'd opted for eMMC storage instead.

If for any reason you need to re-install Windows and want it to re-activate against the supplied OEM license, I found that I had to use RWEverything to retrieve the OEM key from the BIOS/UEFI and then select the "Change product key" option then enter that key in when activating, which usually works. It's a bit of a faff, but Windows by default seems to look for KMS servers instead of the BIOS's SLIC table for the OEM key.

We use Kyocera MFDs as well. We're using Annodata as the Service Provider, but they're owned by Kyocera now and we don't seem to have any issues with consumable supply.

Nuclear

Insurance

I find Veeam so easy to set up and use (in fact had to restore some files today - so simple) that I wonder why I had to suffer Backup Exec for so many years in my last school! Hang on, no I remember. My NM's Line Manager (who oversaw our department) said it was the Industry Standard so we had to use it, even after going to a presentation/seminar one year showing how much better Veeam was over the competition. We brought all the info back from that, showed him all of it and he still wasn't convinced!

It's affecting more than the admin portal now. We're getting users now reporting not being able to sign into Outlook or the main portal page.

Not of course if you're using Intel HD Graphics until about Skylake-era. I'm using a GT710 with Sandy Bridge and it's a huge upgrade and Photoshop doesn't crash like it used to.